Conversation comic strip scaffolds

These comic strips are designed to provide a scaffold for developing the speech and language skills needed for some of the conversations that students often need to take part in at school. There are lots of resources out there for general conversation skills about general topics but not often it can be those everyday conversations with friends and staff at school that it would help to work on.

Situations covered include:
• Morning greeting.
• Difficult playtimes.
• Planning a task with a peer.
• Sharing news with an adult.
• Asking to join a game or activity.
• Asking for help with learning.
• When I am not happy with a friend.
• When I have done something wrong.

There are also 2 blanks so that students can develop their own scenarios relevant to their experience.

In each strip, it was planned that the student in the striped shirt would be the focus student – there are some strips with a peer and others with an adult to work on developing skills for talking with both.

Students benefit from role playing the scenarios using the comic strip as a scaffold or basis for a script.

At the end of the pack there is also a poster to remind students of the features of good conversation skills.